#strength

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#strength #failure

He’d pushed it back, where he’d kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn’t stay. Wouldn’t stop. Wouldn’t let him go. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#heartache #romance #strength #heartache

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#diversity #early #parents #people #strength

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#capacity #effort #need #our #strengthen

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#also #anything #assume #because #believe

Our passion is our strength. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#passion #strength

People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run. ↗

— David Axelrod

#american people #country #doing #doorstep #help

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#because #finding #first #first time #going

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#compels #evil #good #i #lack

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. ↗

— Josephine Baker

#best #best way #draw #heaven #i